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plucky duck · January 8th, 2002, 01:09 AM

I guess not for a school, but any businesses out there. If you were an admin and about to migrate out of NT domain with 98 clients, which client OS would you choose (W2K Pro or XP Pro) and why?? Are the pros of one over another substantiative enough that it is worth the weight of tagging along the cons as well?

The way I see it, most people who work for a business probably already has a 98 or 2000 machine running at home. XP is user friendly? Not really, imo, if you've dealt with 2000 at home. With XP, I'm assuming you'll be getting more techical support calls than if you went with 2000. 2000 has been in the market for quite some time now, help is out there and plenty resourceful, bugs still exist but has become a pretty stable OS. XP still needs some work.

So, what are your thoughts on this? Really interested in the thoughts of network/system admins out there too

Plucky

January 8th, 2002, 01:09 AM	#1 (permalink)
plucky duck Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 1,444	Pros/cons of migrating to W2K Pro client -vs- XP client in a school, or any biz?? I guess not for a school, but any businesses out there. If you were an admin and about to migrate out of NT domain with 98 clients, which client OS would you choose (W2K Pro or XP Pro) and why?? Are the pros of one over another substantiative enough that it is worth the weight of tagging along the cons as well? The way I see it, most people who work for a business probably already has a 98 or 2000 machine running at home. XP is user friendly? Not really, imo, if you've dealt with 2000 at home. With XP, I'm assuming you'll be getting more techical support calls than if you went with 2000. 2000 has been in the market for quite some time now, help is out there and plenty resourceful, bugs still exist but has become a pretty stable OS. XP still needs some work. So, what are your thoughts on this? Really interested in the thoughts of network/system admins out there too Plucky